Amusement apparatus



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P. G. WILLIAMS. AMUSEMENT APPARATUS.

No. 590,783. Patented Sept. 28,1897;

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P. G. WILLIAMS. AMUSEMENT APPARATUS.

No. 590,783. Patent ed Sept. 28,1897.

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PATENT PERoY e. WILLIAMS, 0E BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

AMUSEMENT APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 590,783, datedSeptember 28, 1897.

Application filed ne 1 5, 1896.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PERCY G. WILLIAMS, of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Amusement Apparatus, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to an apparatus for producing upon the senses ofan individual the effects and impressionsincident to a job rney in aconveyance.

The apparatus embraced in the invention is designed to create thesensation of motion, the idea of a moving landscape, and likeimpressions in the mind of the passenger with out traveling the actualdistance of a journey.

Iwill describe the apparatus embodying my invention and then point outits novelty in claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the apparatus.Fig. 2is a rear end View, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation.

Like figures of reference refer to like parts. throughout the drawings.

Referring to the drawings in detail, 1 represents a car provided withconveniently-arranged seats or other means for accommodating thepassengers. It is shown as cylindrical in form and is designed to have avariety of motions similar to the motions of a railway-car. The car isprovided with wheels or rollers 2, one on each end of the car, saidrollers resting on a circular track 3. This track 3 is provided withelevations and depressions in different parts, whereby the car is tiltedat various angles to produce the sensation of going up or downgrades ona railroad-track, which effect of travel is emphasized by the rollers 2being made slightly eccentric, whereby a slight jarring or jogging ofthe car is produced similar to that of a railroad-car.

Motion is given to the car to cause it to revolve about its centralvertical axis by means of a motor 4, which may be of any desired kind,on whose shaft is mounted a small gearwheel 5, meshing with a largegear-wheel 6, carried on shaft 7 whichis suitably mounted in journal-standards 8, and carries at its other end a beveled gear 9,meshing with a beveled gear 10, carried on a shaft 11, which shaft isprovided with a yoke or trunnion 12, in which is journaled .a shaft 13,carried on down- Serial No. 595,543. (No model.)

Wardly-projecting brackets 14, attached to the body of the car.

To further accentuate the sensation of travel and the feeling incidentto motion at a high rate of speed, I provide a blower 15, which I haveshown as mounted on the upper forward end of the car. This blower isdriven by a belt 16, passing over pulley 17 on shaft 18, provided withpulleys 19 at each end, which are belted to one of the series of pulleys20 and receive motion with the rest of said pulleys, as hereinafterdescribed, from pulley 21 through intermediate gears 22 and 23, the gear23 being mounted on shaft 24, which is revolved by means of a beveledgear 25, meshing withthe central beveled gear 10. The outlet of theblower 15 is connected by a tube 26 to the forward end of the car, whereit delivers a current of air into the interior of the car.

Suitably disposed at any desired intervals along the side of the car arewindows or portholes 27. Arranged on each side of the car are a seriesof disks 28, which are adapted to be rotated opposite the windows 27 tocreate the illusion ofa rapid forward movement.

These disks 28 are mounted on arms 29, at-

tached to the body of the car, and are rotated by means of pulleys 20,being belted together In Fig. 1 I have shown a representation of part ofa cyclorama, which I designate as 31. I have also shown here arepresentation of two flights of stairs 32 and 33, 32' being intended torepresent the entra'nce approach, and 33 the exit.

The mode of operation of the apparatus will now be obvious. After adesired number of passengers have been admitted to the car the motor isset in operation to cause the car to be swung or rotated about shaft 11,the rollers 2, working on the track 3, following the undulations of saidtrack and causing the car to be at different points of its travelperfectly level, at other points slightly inclined, and at still otherpoints very much inclined to the horizontal. The rollers 2 beingslightly eccentric will transmit to the car a jarring or undulatingmotion which is incident to the rapid forward motion of a railroadcar,and at the same time the representation of the disks opposite thewindows and the current of air delivered in the forward end of the carby the blower 15 give avery close approximation of the sensationincident to rapid travel in a railroad-car.

Suitably disposed at desired points along the track are representationsof scenes of different character from different countries, &c., and whenthe car approaches one of such scenes it may be brought to a standstilland opportunity given for the passengers to view the scene. The car maythen be started again until it is brought opposite another scene, whereit is brought to rest again and passengers afforded an opportunity toview a scene which may be of an entirely different character andintended to represent a scene far distant from the one last observed.Thus the car may be completely revolved until the entrance is broughtopposite exit 33,whereupon the passengers alight from the car. Thus, ifdesired, the different scenes may be disposed about the track so as torepresent scenes along different routes, and the time which the journeytakes may be any desired period according to the speed at which. the caris rotating.

\Vhat I claim as new is- 1. In an apparatus of the character described,the combination with a car mounted upon a vertical axis, of means formoving the same about said axis, and a circular undulating trackfortilting the car bodily, substantially as specified.

2. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with acar, of means for moving the same about a vertical axis, and a circulartrack on which said car rests at its forward and rear ends,substantially as specified.

3. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with acar, of means for moving the same about a vertical axis, of

0. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with acar movable.

about a vertical axis, of a blower upon the car and communicating withone end thereof, and operating means for said car and blower,substantially as specified.

7. An apparatus of the character described, comprising an elongated cararranged in a horizontal position and movable about a vertical axis, acircular undulating track for tilting the car bodily, one or morewindow-openings in the opposite sides of the car, and a moving partarranged outside of and in juxtaposition to said window opening or opeirings, substantially as specified.

8. An apparatus of the characterdescribed, comprising an elongated car'movable about a vertical axis and provided with windowopenings at itssides, rotatable disks in juxtaposition to said Windows, a circulartrack, rollers thereon arranged to support said car, said rollers beingeccentric for giving a jarring movement to the car, and means forrotating the car and said disks, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

PERCY G. \VILLIAMS.

\Vitnesses:

J. J. MALoNnY, V. II. GoLnnY.

